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Rise above it.

Period.

There’s always going to be racism in this country. It should get better after this generation which spawned Donald Trump has left this earth. But there will always be bigots.

You cannot allow yourself to be dragged down by ignorant white people or ignorant people of any color.

Rise above it.

If you have to compete within yourself and your inner circle of friends who see the world as you do… then so be it.

But firstmost…be true to your core beliefs. This doesn’t mean you just wilt and always turn the other cheek. But be true to yourself.

As Sidney Poitier said in that epic scene from Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, ” Dad, you see yourself as a colored man. I see myself as a man.”

It may be unfair, but black people have to be better. Sports and entertainment have both been venues where this has happened in a great way. Obama took it to a new level as a two term president. But look what happened in his aftermath.

The country elected an openly racist ignorant reality television star. Go figure.

These white people elected a man Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, John McCain, and Mitt Romney would or do think is an utter joke and a pathetic human. But this is where the country is at this specific place in time.

I think he’s a pathetic human. My father would have found Donald Trump to be a pathetic human. My father’s law partners would have found Trump to be pathetic.

My mother can’t stand the human Donald Trump. Any person who in any way lives the Golden Rule can’t stand Donald Trump.

But you cannot allow yourself to be defined by a person like this president.

Be better. Be smarter, Be tougher. Be better parents. Redefine the next generation of Americans.

But most of all…rise above it.

The Thunder put out a statement on their take on racial injustice in our country. To be frank, I’ve seen the Thunder do some really positive things in our state to help people of all colors. I know in reality both Clay Bennett and Sam Presti could never publicly say what they think about Donald Trump given the political breakdown of the people who buy their tickets.

I would guess Clay Bennett to be a Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush type of Heritage Foundation guy. I’m not sure about Presti in that he’s so closed to the media except for the rare pressers he gives now and then. But I would guess privately he has little love for Trump.

Presti doesn’t strike me as one who could tolerate the absolute and total ignorance of Donald Trump. I think he actually has a history and business degree as I do. We’d probably hit it off in a great way. But you know… he has this thing with Little Nick Gallo.

The Thunder released a statement yesterday. This is the last paragraph of the statement:

‘We believe that change starts by leading through love, empathy, understanding and leaning on the relationships that we have in place to continue to create a positive impact.’

I heard this on the radio today and said to myself, “That should be my After Dark song tonight.”

I went to this concert in 1975 if I remember correctly. It was at a jam packed Lloyd Noble Arena. I went with this girl who ask me and it was a one date deal. I was a wild little fucker for several years back then in the day.

I mean…I pray to God my son didn’t do these same things. I don’t even tell Pauli some of the things I did.

But you meet a girl like Minnie Driver in Goodwill Hunting. You fall in love. And you go drive out to Auburn and bring her back where she has to watch Big 12 football. We will retire in an SEC state despite all the snarky things I’ve written about Trump on this blog.

If it turns out to be Melbourne, Florida we’ll be Gator Nation. If it’s Montgomery, Alabama…we’ll be War Eagle fans.

These are our Final Two.

I love this song. It’s what I would call breezy feel good.

Tim Scott is the only black member of the GOP currently serving in the United States Senate. I like him, but I can’t in reality believe he can stay in the same party which elected a Birther racist to the White House.

The political argument the GOP is the party of fiscal restraint is complete and utter bullshit. The fiscal conduct of this White House is the most shameful in American history. Bar none. Period.

Even before the coronavirus, this country under Trump’s tax giveaway to our wealthiest people was in the process of running its third straight deficit of more than a trillion dollars.

Even before the coronavirus this year… GDP’s projected increase was going to fall in the range of 1.9 to 2.1 per cent. Granted it appears most rural whites in the GOP don’t do math or science…this was going nowhere. Even Fed Chair Jerome Powell would admit as much.

Dude…I love some of the things you’re saying, but in truth I can’t believe any black person in this country could be a member of the same party which nominated an overt racist to the White House.

I’m not calling you out as an Uncle Tom per se, but I’m just suggesting that as a man with black skin you might want to re-evaluate your party affiliation.

You don’t have to become a Democrat. I didn’t think for two minutes about becoming a Democrat in 2000 when I left the GOP.

But there is just no way any American with a brain and the ability to read could endorse Donald Trump to remain in the White House for another four years.

Tim Scott, make me proud. Endorse Joe Biden to be the next president. History would be kind to you. I promise.

So in the midst of a pandemic, a Great Depression, and riots in the streets of Oklahoma City…I turned into Nichols Hills on Saturday and went thru Nichols Hills on Grand Boulevard by the park.

Probably the most austere street in Oklahoma City.

Up ahead of me I see this beautiful black woman in tight tights walking on the park sidewalk. I pull up alongside her and let out a “”Whoa, baby.”

She turns her head smiling and she’s a man.

So I just kind of ease down the road and this song starts playing in my head.

The end.

My Saturday.

The looting drives me crazy. It’s stupid. It’s people within their own communities in essence hurting themselves. This is what you’d expect from poor whites who voted for Donald Trump. People not smart enough to vote in their own self-interest.

Instead of this mindless looting send a message by uniformly having all black players sit out a year from the three entities listed above.

You would do permanent harm to colleges and universities from a financial standpoint. Sit out a year from the NBA and see how many tickets owners like Clay Bennett can sell with all white slow players who can’t jump on the floor. Same thing in the NFL. Sit a year. See if that puts a lump in the throats of Roger Goodell and Jerry Jones.

Sit a year.

They can bring in scabs. But sit a year and play it out.

See if this in any way brings some pressure on these entities to get rid of Donald Trump and people like Jeff Sessions and William Barr.

What would all these white people in the SEC do without black players? They probably wouldn’t watch it too long because because they’d come to realize what a bunch of white sissies their own children have become. .

Nobody with half a brain is going to pay NBA ticket prices to watch slow white guys. Quickly…name your current all white NBA first team beyond Luka.

You think OU and O State football would be able to sell tickets. Gundy wouldn’t have a backfield. Neither would Lincoln Riley. Sit out a year and watch the financial dominoes fall.

Boone would love the audacity of your plan.

See what ESPN, TNT, Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS think about the valuation of all white sports products on the air.

Ask the powers to be to put a special federal prosecutor in place to handle all the murdering of innocent black people. Push the white puppet William Barr to the side if you can.

Try some of this, but stop the looting. It’s stupid.

Would you allow a police officer to take your dog and kill it in front of you?

Would you allow a white fan to hit you point blank with a bottle?

Would you allow a punk like Derek Chauvin to kill your friend?

It will be interesting to observe Stephen Jackson in the coming days.

We don’t treat animals like this. Just a complete lack of leadership in this country. Not even the pretense of a legitimate Justice Department in place. Trump and Barr…two white fat boy posers. Two complete frauds.

I hate to write this, but someone should Samuel L. Jackson the coward police officer. Every white person I talked to in Oklahoma today said if they were sitting on a jury and this played out like A Time To Kill they’d acquit the person who killed Derek Chauvin.

And the people I surveyed were all pretty much college graduates.

At some point you can’t turn the other cheek.

I thought the national question today was intriguing from a legal sense involving the murder of George Floyd.

‘If you were a juror would you be able to give Derek Chauvin the presumption of innocence entering the trial?’

The results of the poll question:

18% voted yes

82% voted no

Even though my father was a criminal defense trial lawyer…I voted no immediately. I would not be able to give Derek Chauvin the presumption of innocence.

I hope my father answers the question and explains his answer to me later today.

Great question if respondents answer it honestly.

In which venue is Derek Chauvin going to get a a fair trial?

The problem here is the country currently doesn’t have a legitimate president and his two attorney generals have not been perceived as anything beyond typical white judges with little if any empathy for non-whites.

Jurisdiction will mean everything in this trial given the perception the current federal Justice Department is a joke.

I believe the the Rodney King trial had an all white jury.

Donald Trump isn’t solely responsible for racism. That would be an absurd comment. But he is responsible for making America’s view of race more like in the early 60’s than the year 2020.

When a police officer has nine minutes with an unarmed person on the ground..at what point does premeditation of the crime occur?

At what point in the nine minute torture of George Floyd did this coward decide he would go ahead and kill this man?

It doesn’t look like at any point any of the police officers were worrying for their own physical safety. They just had no idea they were being filmed. They actually perjured themselves in their original statement because they didn’t know the murder was on film.

In Latin legalese it’s called mens rea. I’ve talked about mens rea on my blog before. I was brought up by father listening to every plausible application of mens rea.

At what minute of the nine minutes does this police officer decide he’s going to go ahead and execute George Floyd?

To me…this is first degree murder even if William Barr and the Justice Department cover for this punk.

The state in voir dire needs to get as many blacks on the jury as possible. This trial will be decided in the jury pool selection.

If a black cop had done this to an unarmed white man in this country he’d be hung in fifteen states.

When you have a sitting president who was endorsed by David Duke and then named Jeff Sessions as his first attorney general is this a surprise. I’m not expecting some Bobby Kennedy reaction to the murder of George Floyd from the White House.

Instead … the five white cowards will probably get a Medal of Courage from Donald Trump.

Five on one, really?

What a courageous group these five white police officers in Minneapolis.

Last time I looked Minneapolis wasn’t in the Deep South. So you think racism is exclusive to the South?

This was especially pathetic because an onlooker asked eighteen times for the police officer to stop.

Does even the most ardent Trump supporter have a defense for this action? That you on your own accord just murder someone on the streets before due process is carried out in court? That just because you’re white and because you became a cop who couldn’t graduate from college or successfully start your own business you can execute the death penalty whenever you choose.

I’m sure the courageous William Barr will take care of this for the five brave white foot soldiers.

Maybe if George Floyd had been the star running back for the Vikings or the leading scorer for the Timberwolves he might have gotten some love from the five white cowards. Instead.. he was murdered.

I do think though it’s somewhat sad to burn down your own city and hurt innocent people who had nothing to do with this.

Go burn down a Donald Trump club house at one of his golf course instead.

Having said some unflattering things before about Elizabeth Warren becoming POTUS…I will say I hope she’s the next Attorney General of the United States. She would be perfect for this role. This bullshit has to stop.

You think if a black police officer had murdered a white person like this on the streets the Trump administration might have something to say? You think Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity might have something to say?